Hulkamania is Back! Here's a Shirt-Ripping Playlist, Brother!

It looks like all that training, saying your prayers and taking your vitamins has paid off as this week the immortal Hulk Hogan returned to the WWE. Kicking off this week's edition of "Raw," the Hulkster arrived to a thunderous ovation, celebrating not only his homecoming but the launch of the WWE Network, the company's 24 hour channel of both original content as well as an on-demand service of their entire library of pay-per-views. In honor of Hogan coming back to host the upcoming Wrestlemania 30, as well as the ability to now look back at three decades of Hulkamania at the drop of a hat rip of a t-shirt, we've assembled this musical look back at the Hulkster's musical endeavors, in case you need a playlist that answers the question "Watcha Gonna Do, Brother?!"

Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"

The first time "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan appeared in tinseltown was in the 1983 classic

made enough of an impression to make him synonymous with film. In the early days of wrestling entrance music, this connection allowed Hogan to electrify the building just by walking to the ring to the film's theme "Eye of the Tiger," playing both when he toppled The Iron Sheik for his first world championship as well as

Perhaps the song most associated with Hulk Hogan, as well as America and freedom in general, "Real American" was penned by Rick Derringer (of "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" fame) and, while original intended for another team, happened to fit Hulk Hogan perfectly. Celebrated by everyone from

which Hogan used after jumping from the then-WWF to rival WCW in 1994.

Dolly Parton - "Headlock On My Heart"

But why should classic rock have a stranglehold on Hulkamania? In the late-80s, with Hogan infecting every aspect of media, he wound up doing everything from hosting "Saturday Night Live" to starring in films like

No Holds Barred

and

Gremlins 2

and, indeed, recording a song with Dolly Parton. Appearing in Miss Parton's narrative under the name 'Starlight Starbright' (which isn't quite as menacing of a name as 'Hulk Hogan' or perhaps even 'Terry Bollea') according to Hogan, it isn't his first brush with musical greatness. He once claimed that he was almost chosen as the original bassist for Metallica, which the band vehemently denies.

Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band - "Beach Patrol"

The aforementioned Jimmy Hart was no stranger to music, having one score a top ten hit with

But sometimes change is good, brother. In the mid-90s whem Hogan did the unthinkable and became a "bad guy" (a "heel," in wrestling terms) he needed to play up his egotistical larger-than-life persona. What better track to imply such importance (one of mountain chopping gravitas) than Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child?" Clearing the original master of such a legendary track for use in a sports-entertainment capacity is yet another perk of WCW being funded by Ted Turner.